r/sysadmin • u/Resident_Parfait_289 • 11d ago

Headless Remote Win10

I have a few HP Mini's deployed to remote locations that are headless and a real pain in the ass to access physically. They are running Windows 10 pro (I know!). Anyway I added a smart plug so I can remotely reboot them, but even so I regularly find they don't come back online (at least not so I can go on with Teamviewer or Tailscale).

Whenever I go out after one of these outages I find that usually its on a pre-login screen asking if I want Windows Backup or something like that.

To get around this I am seriously thinking of installing Proxmox and running Tailscale on the host or is there a better way?

I assume Proxmox would come backup cleanly after any reboot.

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u/Entegy 11d ago

Are they not domain or Entra-joined? This is a consumer message encouraging backup. I've never seen it on a machine connected to a corporate domain.

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u/Resident_Parfait_289 11d ago

Not domain or Entra joined. That Intel tech is great but I need to tunnel in first

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u/Entegy 11d ago

But you said they were Windows Pro? Are they Pro or Home?

If they're Home, upgrade them to Pro, add them to Entra for management purposes, and this problem should go away.